The internet contact with people is very helpful, certainly. You need more contact than just the occasional con.
"Fandom" can be different things. I do go to a number of cons, and sometimes to quite distant ones. But the city I live in has an active filk community with monthly housefilks. So getting together with friends every month and eating snacks and talking and, naturally, playing music together, well, we're all filkers filking so I guess this is Fandom, but it's a kind of fandom that's a pretty reasonable way of life. Traveling to distant lands to see people is fun, too, but in the end you have to be realistic about what you can and should do, and, for that matter, what you really want to do.
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"Fandom" can be different things. I do go to a number of cons, and sometimes to quite distant ones. But the city I live in has an active filk community with monthly housefilks. So getting together with friends every month and eating snacks and talking and, naturally, playing music together, well, we're all filkers filking so I guess this is Fandom, but it's a kind of fandom that's a pretty reasonable way of life. Traveling to distant lands to see people is fun, too, but in the end you have to be realistic about what you can and should do, and, for that matter, what you really want to do.